MUMBAI: Taylor Swift grabbed yet another award at the 48th Annual Broadcast Music Inc.(BMI) Pop Music awards.
The country music singer was handed the trophy for ‘Song of the Year’ for her track ‘Love Story’ which she wrote, making the 20 year old the youngest musician musician to win the award.
Taylor has collected almost all popular awards for the year including four Grammys. She’s being named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York and will also be recognised in June with the Hal David Starlight Award, a new honour introduced in 2004 for young composers. She is the first country singer to win.
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In addition to Taylor Swift, there were also RedOne and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp who won Songwriter of the Year and Publisher of the Year respectively. RedOne was honored for his work on Sean Kingston’s ‘Fire Burning’ and Lady GaGa’s ‘Just Dance’, ‘LoveGame’ and ‘Poker Face’, while Warner-Tamerlane received the nod for 12 awarded songs, including Britney Spears’ ‘Circus’.
John Fogerty was named the BMI Icon and saluted by a group of musicians who delivered a medley of his most popular hits, including ‘Travelin’ Band’, ‘Green River’, ‘Up Around the Bend’, ‘Bad Moon Rising’ and ‘Proud Mary’.
